Katie was told she had terminal cancer at just 35 and said NO to chemo

When Katie Barson was given the devastating news her breast had returned late last year – that it had spread throughout her body, that it was incurable and she may not have long to live – she made what she calls ‘the hardest decision of my life’.

The single mother, now 36, told her medical team that she wanted no further treatment.

Having first been diagnosed with an aggressive, hard-to-treat form of the disease in March 2020, Katie, from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, struggled through surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy which triggered an extremely rare immune system reaction.

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